What Were They Thinking? – Wednesday

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The Lego House

by James May

In August 2009, James May, currently known for co-presenter on Top Gear built a full-sized house out of Legos at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, UK. Legoland was to move it to their theme park, but plans for this fell through in September 2009 due to costs for deconstruction, shipping and rebuilding being too high. There was a Facebook appeal to save the Lego House, unfortunately it didn’t work out and the house was demolished on September 22, with the plastic bricks planned to be donated to charity.

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Even the toothpaste and toothbrush are Legos!

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More images at Top Gear




What Were They Thinking? – Wednesday

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I would love to get my hands on this table by – Zaha Haddid, Architect – I feel as if I would need to inspect every square inch of this table because it has my head playing tricks on me. It’s just cool!


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Totally digging how the glass creates the illusion of rippling water on the floor underneath the table!

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PAD London 2012 VIP Reception, Berkeley Square, London, UK

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Duck – Duck – Uncle Goose

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Stumbled upon these on the HGTV Design Happens blog and couldn’t get them out of my head – retro wooden blocks now even better with the coolest designs. Uncle Goose makes hand-manufactured classic wood alphabet and design blocks. These are not your everyday ABC wooden blocks AND they are not just for kids anymore – These are cool! As I sifted through the site I loved them more and more especially when I ran into their Christmas blocks – being that I am a Christmas NuT.

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Even better than the Christmas blocks they have beautiful ABC and mathematical blocks in braille as well as foreign language and really cool specialty blocks for home design!

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These are on the list as soon as I know they won’t be destroyed by my children. Also, I think they would make a great hostess gift! All images via Uncle Goose.